Really, Cafepress, really?!?

I have just become aware via it's facebook fanpage that this year's calendar by Adipositivity has been pulled by cafepress from it's online store.

Here's some background: The Adipositivity Project is a site that wants to promote size acceptance through a display of (IMHO absolutely stunning and beautiful) pictures of fat people. The photographer behind the pictures is Substantia Jones and her gorgeous and stunning photos have gained her and her site quite a following (just check out her facebook fanpage). 

Here's her Mission Statement:

"The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen.

The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally.

The photographs here are close details of the fat female form, without the inclusion of faces. One reason for this is to coax observers into imagining they're looking at the fat women in their own lives, ideally then accepting them as having aesthetic appeal which, for better or worse, often translates into more complete forms of acceptance.

The women you see in these images are educators, executives, mothers, musicians, professionals, performers, artists, activists, clerks, and writers. They are perhaps even the women you've clucked at on the subway, rolled your eyes at in the market, or joked about with your friends.

This is what they look like with their clothes off.

Some are showing you their bodies proudly. Others timidly. And some quite reluctantly. But they all share a determination in altering commonly accepted notions of a narrow and specific beauty ideal." (source)

In order to spread fat acceptance further and because those pictures are just effing great there is a calendar that comes out every year. And it's sold via Cafepress or rather not.

Here's what cafepress had to say about the removal:

"We recently learned that your CafePress.com account contains material which may not be in compliance with our policies. Specifically, we prohibit the display or sale of products which may be sexually suggestive or contain explicit sexual content (including full body nudity and genitalia)." (as posted on the Adipositivity facebook fanpage )

 Sexually suggestive? My a...! Take a look at the offending pics. But even if someone thought that the mere presence of nipples and poons is sexually suggestive to him/her (and from my view that says a lot more about his/her sexuality than the content of the pics...) but even so, take a look what other calenders cafepress sells, which apparently do not fall under the sexually suggestive rule! 

Yeah, you got that right! A woman in a flimsy bikini, kneeling on the floor with the bikini bottoms around her ankles is absofuckinglutely not sexually suggestive!! That's right! It's WTF Wednesday!!

Wanna do something about it??? Send an email to info@cafepress.com  and tell them you'll not buy anything from their site anymore if they don't get a grip on their standards. I will! Oh, and if you want to spread the fat acceptance further, share the news about The Adipositivity Project! 

Happy Wednesday!